Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Sepia Saturday 56 : Saturday 8th January 2011

Picture Bain News Service, Library of Congress Collection

A new year and a small makeover for the Sepia Saturday Blog. Although the look might have changed, the rules stay the same, or rather the lack of rules stay the same. Use an old image as the basis for your post and as a jumping off point to .... well to wherever you might want to go. Post on or around Saturday 8th January 2011 and link your post via the Linky List below. Check out other Sepia posters and .... well enjoy yourself.

My header picture this week continues my tour of image archives and the new year has found me within the confines of the mighty Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division. The Library was one of the major forces behind the Flickr Commons initiative which presents archive images with no known copyright restrictions. This wonderful photograph of a strike in London dates back to the second decade of the twentieth century and comes from a wonderful collection entitled "News in the 1910s".

You don't need police protection to participate in Sepia Saturday. Just post, link and read. What could be easier.

27 comments:

If you ask me, Congress should spend more time on their library and less time haggling with eachother.But seriously, thanks for reminding me of this great resource. I probably won't be participating this week (house guests), but probably back at it next week. Thanks again for hosting this most delightful blog event - the best one out there.

NEETZY just reminded that i should feature a certain something from here in montreal soon. but for this week, a long post [sorry!!] with pictures that are not my own, but connecting with an object that is very much my own, though, how the family came about this, i have no idea. enjoy!!:)~HUGZ

Alan, this is the first time I've been back since you've made the changes. The new header looks great and might encourage more people to participate because of the information you've included. I have to say, though, that I miss the beautiful blue background! It always looked so warm and inviting. (There always has to be one in the crowd....) Thanks for keeping Sepia Saturday going.

Mine is up and linked. Bit of a rushed job as we have visitors due in a couple of hours. It won't be until tomorrow that I get a chance to visit everyone else, but I will be calling. In the meantime, quiet please, sit back and enjoy the performance.

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Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.